Translational spectroscopy of metastable fragments produced by dissociative excitation of atmospheric gases by electron impact: II. Carbon monoxide
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 17 (4), 1357-1365
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.17.1357
Abstract
Oxygen atoms in the state and long-lived high-Rydberg states along with carbon atoms in long-lived high-Rydberg states produced by electron-impact dissociation of CO have been observed in a time-of-flight experiment. A number of dissociation limits were deduced and correlated with dissociation processes. Ranges of kinetic energies were established for the various fragments. The observed high-Rydberg features are discussed in terms of the ion-core model. The data are compared with other dissociative-excitation and analogous dissociative-ionization work. Correlation of observed features with molecular dissociative states was made where possible. The fact that dissociatively excited 1356-Å emissions are Doppler broadened and nonthermal in nature was deduced as a result of this work. This conclusion has import for radiative-transfer treatments of the upper atmospheres of Mars and Venus.
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